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By Dongwhee Kim As I’ve been working on creating a new audio description version for “Train to Busan,” which is considerably the most popular zombie movie in Asia, I often faced an obstacle when it comes to an issue of accessibility. To be more specific, I’ve been struggling to create an audio description that allows…

By Dongwhee Kim Since I’ve shared my experiment on challenging my daily movement last week, I’d like to share what I’ve learned and found during this experiment. My first exploration of this analysis reflects the strategy I’ve used as a way of disrupting my daily movement. To start with, I was motivated to start this…

By Yoon Ji Shim When I first got the description paper of an object, I could not guess the object because it was described in the first point of view that I needed some imagination. However, as I draw the picture of the description in my head, I could somehow see the shape of an…

By Yousef Fatehpour-tehran So far, I’ve been having trouble deciding what clip I want to use. It’s not necessarily the content that’s an issue, it’s more so whether I want to use something with more clear context or something more ambiguous. I’m probably going to use the first 30 seconds or so from the beginning…

By Sabrina Lau The mall, although not always apparent, resides at the forefront of consumerism in America. However, along with consumerism, such a shopping complex also correlates to much vaster notions of autonomy and self-sufficiency. Imagine not being able to purchase basic material goods, browse around stores merely for enjoyment, or consume food at the…

By Jennifer Kee For non-disabled people, audio description would probably be less familiar service compared to captions. Although televisions in public spaces often have captions turned on and YouTube offers auto-caption service, audio description is rarely encountered by people who are not blind or visually impaired. Spending most of my life in my home country…

By Gisselle Leguizamon Disney movies are known for not only their visual style but their lyrical appeal allowing for a small space for audio description. Through analyzing the representational work, I recognized the issues of movement and artistic design within the Disney movies were often untranslatable which made it very difficult to reach the same…

By Karlie DeBerard Balboa Park and The Museum of Man in San Diego is a unique sight to be experienced, both through visuality and through haptic touch. I decided to go to Balboa Park and experience it not through my eyesight but instead through my tactile senses of what I could physically feel about the…

By Cameron Tennyson During our class discussion on audio description in television and films, I started thinking about AD’s relationship with film specifically. If audio description is done retrospectively, then the director’s vision is left entirely up to the company that is paid by the studio to do the AD. This means that the experience…

By Daniela De Paz This week, I decided to try and walk around my apartment with my eyes closed and rely on my sense of touch to get around and identify objects that were within reaching grasp. I wanted to see if I could pay attention to the details and not succumb to the “descriptive…